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37 Ryan Gosling GIFs That Will Make You Swoon on His 37th Birthday

Hey girl, it’s Ryan Gosling’s birthday, and you know what that means: It’s time to celebrate the myriad reasons why he’s one of our favorite heartthrobs. You know, aside from his rugged good looks.

Like all good investigative journalists, we have located the source of the Gosling hysteria, and it happens to be a little known movie called The Notebook. Before entering Nicholas Sparks’s universe, he was a proud member of the Mickey Mouse Club, a blonde and embattled Young Hercules, and the star of one too many murder mysteries.

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But after The Notebook, he was an emboldened heartthrob, the pinnacle of man, and the most hated actor alive by many a bitter boyfriend. His passionately uttered lines could be found on AIM away messages across the country, and his face alone launched a thousand memes. Hey girl, you know which ones.

And so, with one epic, legendary romantic comedy behind him, Gosling launched into a film career that could only be described as meteoric. No matter how many times he tried to inspire disgust—as a tattooed criminal, a suave con artist, or a serial womanizer—we only fell deeper in love.